Dominicana by Angie Cruz
Published 2020 · 304 pages · 70,000 words · about 4 hours at an average pace · Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
How hard is Dominicana to read?
Dominicana scores 40 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 32 out of 100
- Contemporary American prose with Dominican Spanish.
- Sentence structure: 35 out of 100
- Clear, accessible sentences.
- Abstraction: 40 out of 100
- Immigration and identity through experience.
- Information density: 40 out of 100
- Dominican-American experience efficiently conveyed.
- Narrative indirection: 40 out of 100
- First-person with some gaps.
- Symbolic density: 45 out of 100
- Home, the island, and identity carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 40 out of 100
- Cruz writes with empathy.
- Resolution withholding: 45 out of 100
- Life continues; transformation in progress.
- Structural complexity: 35 out of 100
- Straightforward narrative.
How Dominicana is regarded
Dominicana holds a literary regard score of 57 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.